New Media

This Vancouver Blogger Meetup meetup is going to be super social, with some opportunities to engage your meetup captains in a little Blogging 101 questions. What kind of questions? Well, here are a few you might want to ask:

1) What’s the difference between writing articles and creating blog content?
2) How do I get more people to comment on my blog?
3) How can I get more traffic onto my website by including more photos of boobs? (HINT: The answer is hidden in the question!)

Get more info about the next Vancouver Blogger Meetup happening at the Network Hub

And so should you. Well, let me clarify that. You should attend the Vancouver Blogger Meetup today if you:

1. Live in Vancouver
2. Have a blog.
3. Want to promote said blog and other literary, artistic, theatrical or otherwise creative projects you’ve been busy with.
4. Might enjoy meeting other members of the west coast’s creative class.
5. Wouldn’t mind a pint of beer, glass of wine, or coca cola served with a straw at one of Vancouver’s finest spots on Commercial Drive.

Here’s the details:

Location
St. Augustine’s
2360 Commercial Drive
Vancouver

As usual, feel free to plug this event in your own blog post, tweet or message in a bottle. If you use Twitter, the official Twitter account for the Vancouver Blogger Meetup is @yvrblogmeetup.

The year-end Vancouver Meetup of Meetups is happening on Tuesday, December 15 at 6 pm at Ceilis Irish Pub. I will be there (representing the Vancouver Blogger Meetup Group). Other cool people will be there. So the only pertinent question for my Vancouver-based readers and other geeks reading my RSS feed is, are you going to be there?

Let me give you 10 reasons why you ought to show up:

1. In case you didn’t notice from the establishment’s name, the meetup venue is the kind of place where you can drink beer. I like beer. Odds are, so do you. And if you don’t, they’ve got some other stuff behind the bar.
2. You might just get a chance to meet your blog’s most persistent troll face-to-face and slap them.
3. You’ll get business cards from people who still use hotmail addresses. Then you can write to them and say, “Hey, I was totally going to hire you to do $10,000 worth of stuff for me, but then I saw you were using this crappy hotmail address. No thanks.”
4. The chicks from The Real Estate Technology Meetup Group are all smokin’ hot.
5. More beer!
6. Shane Birley and Shane Gibson are going to arm-wrestle. The winner faces off against Raul in a cage match.
7. Someone is bound to teach you how to pronounce Ceilis properly. That’s always good to know.
8. This is your big chance to buy me drinks until I’m so wasted that I give away all of my blog usernames and login passwords.
9. Door prizes, which may or may not include Chris LeMay’s moustache.
10. Admission is by donation of $10 to the Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau, or an unwrapped new toy. It’s for a good cause. Do something nice, for a change.

Hope to see you there, folks. Happy holidays.